Please come to one of the events and please take a stack of magazines to hand to your friends and colleagues. We want to get them out to the people.. And please spread the word if you can. thanks.

-edmar

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LETâ€™S DRINK, LETâ€™S EAT, LETâ€™S PLAYA Proximity Art, Food and Radical Hospitality Mini FestÂ October 18-20, 2013@ Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S Morgan Street, Chicago, ILWe are hosting three special events to celebrate the release of the Food and Art Issue of Proximity. Our three course event takes place at the Co-Prosperity Sphere which is being turned into a series of installations and environments each day.Join us for the potluck edition of Proximity Magazine, wherein we investigate the intersections of art, food, politics and socially engaged practices. In this issue we followed our noses and inhaled the simmering pot of radical hospitality as a strategy for making art. Our investigation into how the boundaries of art and food have been blurred, smoothed out and ingested is revealed through the practices of many local artists, activists and chefs. Our menu offers a survey of projects that are presented as profiles and discussions about the role of food in our lives. A veritable feast was found within Chicagoâ€™s art ecology, now lets sit down and eat.LETSâ€™ DRINKFriday, October 18, 2013, 8-11pmCo-Prosperity Sphere, 3219-21 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL

Admission: $10
Come to our magazine release party and get a hot-off-the-press copy of Proximity, meet some of the featured artists in the magazine and enjoy some bread, and alchemical craft beer creations of your own choosing.

Features installations by PREP,Edra Soto,Â Hardcore Craft Beer presents Alechemy, Bread & Beer and the return of the Hornswagglers!

Complementary beverages by Stone Brewing Company. Other beverages provided by Founderâ€™s Brewing Company & special guest brewers. The Hornswagglers bar will be coming out of retirement for the evening serving their signature cocktails.

Admission: $45 by RSVP Only ( Limited Seating)
Join us at our pop up eatery in the Co-Prosperity Sphere for a special Prix fixe dinner with Chef Chris Reed from The Rice Table.

When the Dutch expanded their empire to Indonesia, they were enchanted by the native cuisine it discovered. Excited by this new world of creative cooking, their appetites increased, and so to the number of dishes at the elaborate table. Thus began the birth of the Rijsttafel, which highlights the various delicacies. The Rijsttafel was brought to The Netherlands, and now this fascinatingÂ culinary event in all itâ€™s glory, can be enjoyed by you â€” right here in Chicago.

The Rijsttafel consists of a treasure trove of Old World delicacies, brought to life and executed to perfection. For this special occasion we have compiled a 12 dish dinner comprised of classical offerings from the West Java province of Indonesia. This evening is a ticketed event at $45.00 a seat and includes 2 complimentary drinks provided by Mariaâ€™s Community Bar, additional drinks

At this family-savvy happening, you will find the Kite Collectiveâ€™s Shadow Forest installation, make visual poetry windchimes with the Kite Collective to take home, boogie to the beats of a Future Hits electric set, cross paths with SHoPâ€™s portatable Froebelian learning center, learn more about Be the Change Charter School and play with Cultural ReProducers. Eric May, a featured artist from Proximityâ€™s new issue, will be serving his signature E-Dogz to attendees. This event is part of Co-Prosperity Sphereâ€™s â€œUrban Operating System.â€

“Good Morning!”Â is a fabric installation that will be draped on the facade of the building located atÂ 72 East 4th Street, NYC. All the fabric is donated by people from the neighborhood, as well the generous support from Materials for the Arts.

Big THANKSÂ to all the volunteers, neighbors, and donors of time and material. After all the PUBLIC SEWING DAYS we have made this amazing project come together. YOU MADE IT HAPPEN…I couldn’t have done it without you.

TheÂ FAB! FestivalÂ is a celebration of arts and culture in the Lower East Side taking place on Saturday September 28, 2013 from 1-5pm with an annual attendance of over 3000 people. The event hosts multiple stages both indoors and outdoors, as well as food vendors, visual artists, activities and community partners on East 4th St. between Bowery and 2nd Ave.

This will be an exciting project to brighten up the street, bring attention to the neighborhood architecture, and bring together community members. It is important to take time to notice things and share them with others, especially in New York which is so full of creative individuals and energy.
“Good Morning” is being created for the FAB! Festival as part of FABnycâ€™s SUSTAIN project, with generous support from the Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund:Â www.fabnyc.org/sustainability.php

Here is an update on Carissa Hinz and how you can donate money to her family to aid with the expenses related to this tragedy.

For those who missed the story yesterday, we reported the shocking death of artist Carissa Hinz, 21, last Friday as she was leaving Version Fest. She was killed by a hit-and-run driver who has yet to be apprehended.

Until we get that info please go to Jackalope and leave a huge tip in her honor.

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Authorities have released details about the driver of a car that struck and killed a 21-year-old Bridgeport woman and then drove away.

According to an alert issued by Chicago Police Department on Tuesday, the vehicle “a maroon Hyundai Sonata sedan” was driven by a Hispanic male believed to be in his 20s. The car was occupied by two other people.

Police said the car was speeding in the 3200 block of South Morgan Street when it struck Carissa Hinz, an aspiring artist who was helping clean up after Friday night’s kickoff party for Version Fest, the community-focused art and cultural festival she helped organize.

The impact from the crash sent Hinz flying into the rear windshield of a car parked about a 100 feet away, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Hinz was a well-known artist and barista in the community. Friends at Jackalope Coffee and Tea have said they’ll donate all of their tips at the end of the week to Hinz’s family

If law school resulted in no other tangible change to my life/personality it truly cast in stone my cravingÂ for escapist entertainment. Iâ€™ve seen crime scene pictures galore, Iâ€™ve done legal aid work, I work withÂ BAS, Iâ€™ve seen enough horror. I like my entertainment light and happy, more or less.Â Also, I am a complete sucker for magical realism, I admit it, Iâ€™m out of the closet, you wanna makeÂ something of it. Any of you who got excited about Harry Potter, I dare you to scoff.

I saw this movie, shortly after itâ€™s release on the airplane back from Paris. The friend we were visitingÂ there, Adam Jolles (now the Chair of Art History at Florida State University), between spats with hisÂ dramatic, angry and lovely French girlfriend, raved about how much he enjoyed the movie and I mustÂ see it. So when I saw it available as an option on the flight, I figured why not.

What ensued was as over the top charming a movie as one could endure without slipping intoÂ diabetic shock. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, I had seenÂ Jeunetâ€™s work before with the unique films Delicatessen and City of Lost Children (far darker films, butÂ completely enjoyable, they are definitely on the â€œBrazilâ€ pile).

The filmâ€™s protagonist is Amelie (Audrey Tautou doing an excellent personification of every straight art-boyâ€™s dream girl) a shy, introverted waitress in Paris. Her simple life is set into upheaval by her fatefulÂ discovery of a treasure trove hidden in her apartment by a boy many years ago. After secretly returningÂ the box to the now middle-aged man and unexpectedly changing his life, she has an epiphany andÂ dedicates herself to elaborate attempts to aid others by giving fate a nudge (not all positive, she torturesÂ a cruel grocer in a masterful way). At the same time she stumbles upon and finds her perfect match in aÂ man who collects discarded photos from photo booths in Paris, who is just as much an odd-duck as sheÂ is. Wacky misadventures, misunderstandings, and tangents worthy of a Shakespeare comedy ensue.

If that wasnâ€™t enough the Yann Tiersen soundtrack is amazing.

It is cute, yes, sappy, probably, but if you are feeling like the world is a dark evil place, no one gives aÂ shit, everyone hates you, etc. this film canâ€™t help but generating some happy feelings.